Digital Libraries are emerging electronic entities. Digital Libraries are becoming important information resources. The Digital Libraries concept is appealing because its inherent design combines end-user needs with technology that has the ability to handle vast amounts of complex data. Perhaps most importantly, the Digital Libraries concept has longevity because it provides important services for a society that is identified as being in the process of profound social change including movement towards a knowledge society and …showed first 75 words of 4553 total…

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